superconductr

superconductr is an artistic research project into structural conditions and contradictions of on-demand labour distributed through digital platforms. superconductr’s work aims to make these visible through artistic methods including delegated performance and interventions that utilise the functionalities of existing digital labour platforms, through participation in activism for precarious workers’ rights, and through theoretical investigations. The name superconductr refers to Michel Foucault’s description of power as the conduct of conduct, which here takes into account conduction as the transmission, control and mining of data streams in networks that facilitate the mobilisation, capture and extraction of human labour power. superconductr is a project by artist Matthias Kispert, a practice-based PhD candidate at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster that is tuned into collective flows, connected to and involved in building cooperative assemblages.